The Handycam NEX-VG30/VG30H model succeeds the acclaimed NEX-VG20 camcorder. Like the NEX-VG900 camcorder, it can capture smooth, cinematic Full HD video footage at 60p, or 24p (progressive) frame rates and high-resolution still photos, supported by a wide range of artistic Picture Effect modes.

The 1080 60p AVCHD recordings generated from NEX-VG30 satisfy its users, but something prevents the users from easily importing Sony NEX-VG30 AVCHD to FCP 7 on Mac OS X. The 1080 60p AVCHD flies would not be ingested natively into Final Cut Pro 7. Sony NEX-VG20 records 1080/60p AVCHD video; while, the non-linear video editing software Final Cut Pro cannot support AVCHD 1080 60p/50p files perfectly. Even if you can apply the Log and Transfer plug in to import the AVCHD footages successfully, you would actually not be satisfied with the transcoded Apple ProRes 422 LT files(The Log & Transfer can do the AVCHD to Apple ProRes422 LT conversion work for you as a background converter). Any solution to solve the problems?

The best solution we’ve found is to get a powerful Mac AVCHD Converter to convert 1080 60p AVCHD to ProRes for FCP 7 avoiding the quality loss. This Mac AVCHD to ProRes Converter is the decent converter for you, which offers you particular profiles for Final Cut Pro including ProRes 422, ProRes 422 (LT), ProRes 422 (Proxy) and ProRes 4444 as well as the ProRes 422 (HQ), which can output the video keeping the original quality.

1. Launch the AVCHD converter for Mac after the installation, and then load the AVCHD .mts files to it.

2. Click on the “Format” and get the dropdown menu, then move you pointer to “Final Cut Pro”. Under the sublist are there a few formats compatible with FCP 7. Here we recommend the Apple ProRes 422(HQ) if you give the priority to the quality of the converted videos.

3. You can click the Settings icon to do some audio/video settings. We recommend 1920*1080 as video size and 30fps as video bitrate for later easy editing in FCP 7.

When the conversion process shows in 100%, you can get the resulted videos via tapping the Open button in the main interface. Now, import Sony NEX-VG30 AVCHD to FCP 7 on Mac for editing freely without quality loss.